Nick Saban is not a fan of the current NIL setup, because it gives the big blue bloods a competitive advantage.
He's obviously correct that if you want a level playing field, then all schools need to have equal NIL resources.
It seems to me that bigger schools have always had more money to throw around, and Saben was a master of leveraging any advantage he could find to help Alabama, which had more money then most of his competitors.
Much of the NIL is dictated by the courts to allow the student athletes to make as much money as they can. If they set up an NIL cap that the smaller schools could afford, then the average per player NIL payment would plummet, and there would be another lawsuit that the student athletes would likely win.
Almost nobody likes the current setup, but like it or not it's helping Texas.
ESPN College GameDay analyst Nick Saban has raised some concerns about the unsustainable college football model in regards to NIL.
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